Lesson 5: Web Craft, Learning &
Knowledge
Welcome back.
Today, the topic of consideration is the pretty steep
learning curve we have to go through to make it all work on
the purely structural level.
Up until about 200 years ago, an adult would have
expected to know mostly all there is about their
environment, their world and the tasks they were performing,
may that have been farming or silversmithing,
Today, that's no longer so.
Today, adults go out and with much trepidation, invest
invest in their first PC. They are far more scared of this
than of their first washing machine or their first car - we
didn't watch our elders tapping away on keyboards for hours
on end! Many of us seek advice on PC related matters from
our *children* or other youngsters many years our juniors.
This is an unusual state of affairs, and the usual kinds of
acquiring learning we were once familiar with, likewise need
to be reviewed as they can't keep up with this.
There is no school you can go to, sit in rows for a
while, chant an alphabet or learn something by heart that
will teach all that is required for Web Craft. But in a way,
that's actually a very good thing because sitting in rows
did never very much good at the best of times, and who
actually remembers a single lesson of their many years spent
at school in any detail at all?
There are many, many more ways to learn new things than
just getting a ready made regurgitation of another person's
ideas of what's what spoonfed a bit at a time, over a period
of time, and our learning meditation today is about bringing
some of those into your conscious awareness.
The Web Craft Learning Meditation
For a moment, allow yourself to drift along as you're
reading this because I'm going to direct your attention on
the many, many thousands of websites you have seen, no
matter how briefly, during your time on the web.
Now, you might not remember very much about most of them
in consciousness, and you might even find it quite hard if
pressed to tell me about the last five hundred web sites
you've visited, the last five thousand pages you've watched
loading up, the last fifty thousand hyperlinks you've
clicked to go somewhere you hoped would be a good place to
find something that might be useful, interesting, amusing,
educational or all of these things.
But you know, it has long been proven that our minds are
indeed, the most fantastic storage device and if I was to
put you into a deep, deep trance, you would remember all of
that with perfect clarity, every detail of every page you've
ever visited, because it's all there and it was all
recorded, whether you gave it much attention at the time or
none at all.
Likewise, every script you've ever looked at - java
class, html, dhtml, cgi, and all the many kinds there are -
is stored in your mind, in your neurology somewhere. Now you
may wonder what would happen if these places inside yourself
began to communicate now with each other in a whole new way,
and they began to share certain things, certain principles
that occur time and time again and that, if you were but to
look for what they have in common, would link what your eyes
perceive and what is happening to make this happen behind
the scenes, in such a way that it all becomes very
transparent, very clearly structured, following laws and
rules that are quite immutable, like laws of nature.
There was a time when you were a child and you first
found out that you can release an object and it will fall
away from you, away from your hand and twist and turn and
fall until it settles on the floor.
Like all children do, you were fascinated by this and
repeated it time and time again, until you could be quite
sure that you really knew, really KNEW that this was
something that happens every time, that you can rely on it
and with this knowledge, relax and use it now in whole new
ways.
And then, when you got a little older, you could ask
questions and back then, they were not always answered as
you would want them answered, and today, the questions you
have can and will be answered - there are millions of people
who have already found out what you are trying to do, and
they have written about these things and their experiences,
and we have at our fingertips the resources to know about
this too, for as we search, the engines of the internet
support us in this task and all and any questions you might
have, will find an answer of sorts, even if it is the answer
that no-one knows and you need to work it out yourself, and
be the first to do so, and become the one that tells the
others.
We are all children again, even the highest paid, the
most experienced hackers who are playing just like little
kids with this and that, try this and that, and sometimes
something works, and sometimes it does not; but that is
really quite beside the point because the learning comes
from trying new things, new ways and every failure just as
every thing you do that works and makes you cry out loud,
"Alright! I've made it work!" is just a little
stepping stone to more and deeper understanding of the
principles of learning and of knowledge, the real true
principles that are discovery and exploration, and lessons
learned, learned deeply because *you found it out all for
yourself*.
So now, just sit quietly for a moment, and take away your
doubts and fears and know that we are all designed for
learning, learning easily and in direct response to our
environment.
With doubts and fears well set aside, you really can
begin to make the deep connections to the symbols and the
principles of communicating with machines, of using and of
utilising their support for our endeavours and flowing
smoothly forward, understanding, learning and integrating
with everything, from everything, you do and see and have it
now become aligned so that you know, you know as well.
A frightened man makes a poor lion tamer.
Our new technologies - rapidly advancing as they are -
need for us to have a whole new approach to thinking,
learning and problem solving. If these topics are meaningful
to you, I might suggest you do some EFT as well on meanings
you have made around those topics in the past.
Fear and insecurity are energetically woven into most
everything you do and they are sensed by all; make sure you
don't inadvertently weave a trace of that into your html :-)
That's all for today, hope you enjoyed the Web Craft
Learning meditation. Next time, we're going to talk about
Service and Relationships.
Till then, have a really exciting day,
bye for now :-)
Silvia Hartmann
http://starfields.org
